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29/08/2026

Why was ONE Jewish passenger taken off this ship in Palma?

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In 1673, a ship carrying Jews from North Africa toward Livorno stopped in Palma.

Among them was a teenager known as Isaac López — born in Madrid and baptized Christian as Alonso López before later returning openly to Judaism.

That made him different.

The Mallorcan Inquisition claimed jurisdiction over him because he had been baptized.

He was arrested, tried and, after refusing to renounce his Judaism, burned alive in Palma in 1675.

He was only about 17 years old.

An incredible Mallorca story that very few people know.

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28/08/2026

Shabbat Shalom from SEFARAD! What if an entire community was forced to hide its Jewish identity for centuries?

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Mallorca is home to a story unlike anywhere else in the world.

The Xuetas (pronounced and spelled in Spanish “Chuetas”) are Catholic descendants of the island’s Jewish conversos — families whose Jewish ancestry remained known and whose identity set them apart for generations.

Our film Xueta Island tells their remarkable story of secrecy, persecution, identity, memory…and revival.

This clip is just a small piece of it.

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27/08/2026

What’s more dangerous than ignorance? Choosing not to learn about each other.

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This is exactly why we do these tours for Jews AND non-Jews.

Here I’m explaining the mezuzah and the Shema — the declaration at the heart of Jewish monotheism: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”

And then we look at something fascinating in Palma.

An indentation in the stone that today resembles a cross — but which may once have held a mezuzah before Mallorca’s mass conversion of 1435.

Can we prove it? No.

But it gives us an opportunity to ask questions, explore history and understand the people who once lived here.

Because fighting hate and intolerance doesn’t only happen through speeches.

Sometimes it happens by walking down a street together, getting curious about someone else’s history, and learning.

That’s why these tours matter.

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26/08/2026

Can you imagine being forced to abandon the religion your family had practiced for generations?

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To understand Mallorca’s Crypto-Jews, you have to understand just how central religion was to life in the medieval world.

There was no Facebook. No Google. No modern separation between religion, family, community and identity.

So when Mallorca’s remaining Jewish community was forced to convert in 1435, their Jewish identity didn’t simply disappear overnight.

And we have extraordinary evidence of that.

More than 250 years later, on March 7, 1688, members of Mallorca’s Crypto-Jewish community were still secretly practicing Judaism — and even attempted to escape the island so they could live openly as Jews elsewhere.

Think about that.

More than two and a half centuries after conversion, the connection survived.

That’s what makes this story so remarkable.

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24/08/2026

What if an entire community was forced to hide its Jewish identity for centuries?

🎬 Comment “XUETA” and I’ll send you a link to watch our documentary, Xueta Island: A Hidden History.

Mallorca is home to a story unlike anywhere else in the world.

The Xuetas are Catholic descendants of the island’s Jewish conversos — families whose Jewish ancestry remained known and whose identity set them apart for generations.

Our film Xueta Island tells their remarkable story of secrecy, persecution, identity, memory…and revival.

This clip is just a small piece of it.

👇 Comment “XUETA” and I’ll send you the link to watch the full film.

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22/08/2026

How do you make sure a family is stigmatized… for generations?

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For generations, sambenitos connected to people condemned by the Inquisition were displayed at the Convent of Santo Domingo in Palma.

Historian Baruch Braunstein describes families coming to see them and children growing up learning that the names hanging there belonged to “heretics.”

Those names were the ancestors of Mallorca’s Chuetas.

Imagine growing up knowing that your family name was publicly displayed and associated with heresy because your ancestors had been accused of secretly practicing Judaism.

The trials ended.

But the names — and the stigma attached to them — survived for generations.

That’s part of what makes the Chueta story so extraordinary…and so important to keep telling.

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21/08/2026

What happens when your secret escape from the Inquisition goes terribly wrong?

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On March 7, 1688, Mallorca’s Crypto-Jewish community attempted something extraordinary.

Led by one of their community leaders, they secretly left Palma at night and boarded a ship hoping to escape to freedom.

But a storm prevented the ship from leaving.

They returned to Palma… and the Inquisition was waiting.

What followed was devastating: arrests, interrogations and torture that ultimately implicated more than 200 members of Mallorca’s secret Jewish community.

And this story is far from over…

Follow for Part 3.

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20/08/2026

What happened when Mallorca’s Crypto-Jews decided they had to escape?

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The date was March 7, 1688.

Rafael Valls, a soap maker and one of the leaders of Mallorca’s secret Jewish community, helped organize an extraordinary plan.

More than 250 years after Mallorca’s mass conversion of 1435, Crypto-Jewish families were still outwardly living as Christians while secretly preserving Jewish traditions.

Their plan?

Escape Mallorca by boat and sail toward Livorno, Italy, where they hoped they could finally live openly as Jews.

But something went terribly wrong…

What happened next would change Mallorca’s Crypto-Jewish community forever.

Follow along for Part 2.

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17/08/2026

What if Palma’s streets could tell you exactly where its medieval synagogues once stood?

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Years ago, Palma City Hall, together with the cultural heritage association ARCA, began marking streets in the old Jewish Quarter with their historic names.

And those names reveal an incredible map of Jewish Palma.

We’ve already seen Carrer de la Sinagoga Vella — Street of the Old Synagogue.

We’ve seen references to the Sinagoga Major — the Main Synagogue.

And now we arrive at Carrer de la Sinagoga Nova — Street of the New Synagogue.

This synagogue emerged after the devastating anti-Jewish violence of 1391, when Palma’s Jewish community was attacked and its world dramatically changed.

But where exactly was this synagogue?

And what happened here?

Follow along — because in the next part of this series, I’m taking you further down this street to uncover more of the story.

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15/08/2026

What happened when 37 crypto-jews tried to escape Mallorca in 1688?

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On March 7, 1688, a group of Mallorca’s Crypto-Jews attempted to escape the island by boat.

The escape failed.

In the aftermath, 237 people were arrested by the Mallorcan Inquisition.

These were people living publicly as Catholics while secretly maintaining Jewish identity and traditions inside their homes.

They were imprisoned in the Inquisition headquarters known as the Casa Negra — the Black House.

But visit this part of Palma today and you could easily walk straight past without realizing what once happened here.

The Casa Negra is gone. Now it is the plaza mayor.

One of the few clues remaining is the street name Costa de la Inquisició — the Slope of the Inquisition — where prisoners were led down toward the Born for the public Autos de Fe.

Sometimes the most important history is the history you can no longer see.

You just need to know where to look.

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